I love the Mummy, but one reason why you shouldn't compare the two movies
Roland00 Send a noteboard - 08/10/2011 02:52:04 AM
Is that while both movies deal with the supernatural/magical, the Mummy deals with a supernatural unstoppable villian. The only way to defeat said villian is via finishing the quest and getting the magical artifiact. Indy on the other hand deals with real life people (nazis) who are perfectly normally humans, furthermore the hero gets his ass kicked routinely via these perfectly normal humans (thus showing off his own humanity), yet through sheer cunning/luck the hero still wins.
A second reason you should not compare the two movies is that Raiders of the Lost Arc deals with familiar imagery with the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. It does reinvent the story somewhat via making the Ten Commandments mystical and magical. Who cares about a Book of the Dead or the Shiva Sankara Stones.
A second reason you should not compare the two movies is that Raiders of the Lost Arc deals with familiar imagery with the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. It does reinvent the story somewhat via making the Ten Commandments mystical and magical. Who cares about a Book of the Dead or the Shiva Sankara Stones.
This one might get some discussion going... we can hope. So I just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark.
07/10/2011 10:32:19 PM
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Harrison Ford?
07/10/2011 10:56:17 PM
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Obviously I was always going to miss out on the nostalgia factor. But even so.
07/10/2011 11:09:15 PM
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Probably the difference between being a great example of the genre and pioneering it. *NM*
08/10/2011 12:03:38 AM
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I love the Mummy, but one reason why you shouldn't compare the two movies
08/10/2011 02:52:04 AM
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I've noticed your difficulties with recognizing the important and great films of the 80s before
08/10/2011 03:19:37 PM
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Better writing? Better lead actor? *NM*
08/10/2011 05:34:12 PM
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The latter is debatable, actually. As for the former: yeah, right.
*NM*
08/10/2011 08:36:49 PM
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It's just an illustration of how things can be more than the sum of their parts.
11/10/2011 01:38:36 AM
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